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Ex-Iraqi MP urges U.S. to Form Moderate Arab-Israeli Alliance
October 27, 2010
Partnership based on economic interest could give US greater leverage against Iran, says Mithal al-Alusi, whose sons were murdered after he came to Israel in ’04.
Oil and water don’t usually mix. But one native son of the Middle East has...
A Waterway Alliance to Protect the Strait of Hormuz is President Obama’s Key to Mideast Peace
October 21, 2010
Oil and water don’t usually mix, but a native son of the Middle East has a suggestion for President Obama on how to combine these elements to promote peace in the region.
Mithal al-Alusi, a former Iraqi Parliamentarian, believes a key to...
Sarah Palin Is a Feminist
January 14, 2010
Who is a feminist?
We’ve been asking that question since reading “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin’s autobiography, and after reading columns by prominent feminists deriding the idea that the former Governor of Alaska...
Journalist Pushes On In Bangladesh Despite Harassment; His US Supporters Keep Faith With Him
June 20, 2009
Journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, who was physically attacked and beaten in February by thugs he believes were members of the Bangladeshi government’s ruling party, has recovered from his injuries.
But this independent...
Dissident Watch: Mithal al-Alusi
May 30, 2009
Spring 2009
Amid growing conservatism and ethnic and sectarian populism in Iraq, parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, a Sunni Arab, has become the country’s chief advocate for liberal values including a free market, free press, religious...
Don Quixote Comes to Israel
July 25, 2008
It is fitting Daniel Lubetzky would grow up to be an entrepreneur who tries to bring peace to the Middle East. He recalls how, one summer when he was 12 and working for a textile wholesaler in Mexico City, he overheard people on the...
1-800-Mattress.com Founder Thinks Outside the Box Spring
June 25, 2008
Napoleón Barragán, the founder, owner and CEO of 1-800-Mattress.com, believes in thinking outside the box. In the late 1980s, Barragán approached radio talk show host Howard Stern about advertising on his radio program.
On a...
City Lawyers Set To Rally for Their Pakistani Counterparts
November 14, 2007
November 13, 2007
Lawyers from firms across the city will stop billing clients for half an hour today to rally in support of the lawyers and judges of Pakistan.
The rally, planned for 1 p.m. in front of the New York County Courthouse at 60 Centre...
U.S. Attorneys Rally in Support of Pakistani Brethren
November 14, 2007
November 14, 2007
The steps of the New York County Courthouse in downtown Manhattan were a sea of black and white Tuesday as hundreds of New York City attorneys gathered in support of their counterparts in Pakistan, thousands of whom have been...
Walter Monheit: The Oldest Club Kid
November 12, 2007
July 23-25, 2004
On the New York City nightclub scene, Walter Monheit is a fixture, an icon even.
Since the days of ballroom dancing clubs in the 1950’s, this now-78-year-old man has been clubbing two to three nights per week from around...